![]() ![]() ![]() In Youth, the first of two volumes, Feaver conjures Freud's early childhood: Sigmund Freud's grandson, born into a middle-class Jewish family in Weimar Berlin, escaping Nazi Germany in 1934 before being dropped into successive English public schools. The result is this a unique, electrifying biography, shot through with Freud's own words. Though ferociously private, Lucian Freud spoke every week for decades to his close confidante and collaborator William Feaver - about painting and the art world, but also about his life and loves. Anyone interested in British art needs it' ANDREW MARR, NEW STATESMAN It does justice to Lucian' FRANK AUERBACH Freud would have approved' DAILY TELEGRAPH ![]() Leaves the ready itchy for volume two' SUNDAY TIMES, ART BOOK OF THE YEAR A compendium of high-grade gossip about everyone from Princess Margaret to the Krays, a tour of the immediate post-war art world, a snapshot of grimy London and a narrative of Freud's career and rackety life and loves. 'This exceptional book is far from standard biography. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 SELECTED AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH, NEW STATESMAN, SUNDAY TIMES, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND SPECTATOR ![]()
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